OT -- Jan 14, 2012 shiny new year version

The one upside trade off though is the large number of cold, bluebird days we’ve had. Winter sunshine is so nice.

thus there are a few inches of snow outside where I am right now. I haven’t heard the familiar spinning of tires, but I’m starting to think that if I go out to work today I may not be coming back tonight.

I am mostly amazed that after all the food everywhere during the holidays that I didn’t go way back up. The enforced bike ride is a good idea— I have someone at work who also wants to get a walk in, so we’re hoping to noodge each other out the door more often.

I wouldn’t mind signing Betemit either.

The only problem is that all the cars that got stuck this afternoon will still be right where they got stuck.

When he fought the evil robot kings, he saved the human race again. You’re going to turn that man down?

Why do I ever clicked the goddamned comments link?

Thank you my brothah!

Sunday evening update

The model runs generated Sunday evening still had a wide range of opinions. One (the “GFS”) has 4-8" of snow falling between roughly 7am and 1 p.m. on Wednesday, followed by a period of heavy rain and strong gusty winds of 30-35 mph with temperatures warming rapidly into the 40s .

Another American model (the “NAM”) had the storm coming in much further south into central Oregon, keeping the Seattle area colder but also less snowy.

The European model keeps the snow around longer, but gradually warms us up. Its solution would make a snowier picture for the Northwest.

It looks like we’ll just have to wait until the storm draws closer and develops more before the models will come to a closer consensus.

this can only be bad for football

I do hope you will continue to write for us in FG or LL!

I apologize if I ever said anything dickish to you in a flagged comment. I feel like I may have a long time ago.

A problem with shoddy piping that was regulation when it was installed twenty+ years ago but now would not pass (to say nothing of the lazy contractors who build the house) left us with a water leak on the half bathroom facing the garage. Consequently, that bathroom was torn apart and gutted while dehumidifiers were installed. Further tests revealed that the water had also seeped into the adjacent laundry room and entryway, and those were eventually partially torn up and dehumidified. And the piping will probably be replaced at the same time as the bathroom is re-done, but we first need to clean everything up and no one knows how long that will take. Also the floors would have to be refinished, meaning we’d have to vacate the house at some point.

But as of yesterday, the major inconvenience was that a minor part in one of the two remaining toilets broke and now we only have one functioning toilet. Can’t exactly go out and get the replacement because there be snow and shit. Wheeeeeeee!

(I feel you on the hot water though. Every so often when I lived in NYC, it would get shut down for my block)

electric hot pot, big pots on the stove, and washing in the kitchen.

I was thinking about how much my communication patterns would change if I couldn’t use the letter L. How I couldn’t visit LL anymore.

But it worked this morning, so all is well.

There was a huge hole in my roof and my bathroom was totaled and everything else smelled like smoke and stuff, but none of my items were actually damaged. But still, it was a massive, massive inconvenience that involved me sleeping on the floor at a friend’s apartment for a time and interfered with the first week of school for me.

Beyond that, I’m rather interested in Kingdoms of Amular: Reckoning (Apparently it’s made by Curt Schilling?), Paper Mario 3ds, The South Park RPG by Obsidian, Diablo 3, Risen 2, and Xenoblade Chronicles.

Besides that, Diablo 3 and the new Counter Strike. I’ve really been trying to cut down on gaming, since I keep buying games that I don’t really get a chance to play because I’m busying playing other things.

a lot of release dates haven’t been finalized yet.

What would you guys say are the must-have titles? I’ve just bought DA:O, FF XIII and Deus Ex: Human Revolution, would any of those make the list? I know the first two split opinion on here, and I seem to recall Deus Ex being well-regarded but may be mistaken in that.

I felt like RE5 kind of screwed the pooch by fucking u[ the inventory system and retaining only a few of those special elements that made RE4 uniquely charming.

That said, HOLY FUCKING SHIT

I must have slept through the class they taught those in.

Yikes.

Woah.

Thanks for sharing.

“Onshore flow from passing disturbance has some areas in mid 30s (and rain in the lower elevations) but it’ll cool
back down once north wind arrives later today. Don’t let it fool you into a lull for tomorrow — totally different setup.”

As pointed out below, Cliff Mass said 6-14 yesterday, now 2 to 5.

Komo4 is still pointing to the 6+ range for the greater Seattle area.

My poor heart is being treated like a punching bag.

Like 12-18 inches in Seattle proper tomorrow.

Fine, I’ll live with my 5-6 inches we have right now.

Let’s go SNOWWWWW

I can’t watch this without mentally replacing the dog’s face with Jack Wilson’s….

It makes me wonder how my dog would handle snow now.

I get that little thumbnail thingy where the .gif is and when I right click on it to open in a new tab I get an unable to open network message. Why does my computer hate you? Must.See.Rally.Puppy.

Alice was exactly like this until she ate some grody snow and has been sick for two days. :(

I can’t decide whether to put a smiling emoticon or a frowning emoticon after that.

I think it is one of the few shows on TV I actually care about right now

Love me some Justified.

Jiminy Christmas.

“It’ll almost be too bad if we don’t get a massive snow because I haven’t seen a more perfect set up in a long time. Arctic air now marching south – 10 in Bellingham, mid 20s up north and Everett is just now about to drop into 20s. And with massive storm coming in on top of it? CLASSIC set up. Just need the moisture which theoretically should have been the easiest ingredient to secure.”